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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 806860" data-attributes="member: 16749">This is a triptych of the level mentioned in the previous post, in pieces.  Top panel shows all the pieces, the big wood piece, and the two actual levels that mount in it.  Alas, I didn't think of it until later, but the two metal pieces are reversed with regard to their positions in the wooden piece.  The larger metal piece is the horizonal level, and it goes in the middle of the wood piece.  The smaller metal piece is the vertical level, and it mounts near the end with the hole in it, so that its tube can be seen through that hole.  Most of the screws holding this all together were missing, and most of the holes in the wooden part stripped out.  I'm filling all the holes with wood glue, and when that has set, I mean to drill them, and put this all together with brand new screws.  Alas, the new screws that I found at Home Depot, otherwise the most similar that I could find to the original, are Phillips screws, which are not period-correct for this level, Phillips screws being from the 1930s, and this level cannot possibly be any newer than the very early 1920s, and is very likely from the late 18th century.  You can see that the adjusting screw for the horizonal level is somewhat damaged.  Alas, it is rusted to immovability, which apparently did not stop someone from trying very hard and utterly failing to get it to turn.  I have the relevant part soaking in Kroil, hoping to get it to free up.  I was able to successfully resolve a similar, milder instance of this same issue, with the vertical level.[ATTACH=full]392553[/ATTACH]  EXIF Data are in the attached file ZSC_7009-7011-7012_1618x1000.png.exif.txt  I'm hoping to get this thing fully fixed and put back together, in time for it to be my final entry in this challenge.  The biggest issue, at this point, is getting that horizontal adjusting screw free enough to turn.</blockquote>

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